Theres two words that come to mind about the whole fucking thing.
WOODS
and
THROW
They are NOT making things last longer. They are not releasing new models that fix existing problems. They are not trying to make things better. They are not interested in making things that break less. What they are trying to do is even worse. They are trying to design everything to become obsolete as soon as possible. They are trying to make things interconnected so they can sell data that is collected. They are trying to use everything as an advertising platform. They are trying to make things crappy and cheap so they break intentionally. They are trying to overcharge for cheaper and cheaper crap. They are not giving us useful features while overloading us with things we dont want.
This is not the way the future is supposed to be. The future is supposed to be actually better than what we had before, not worse. If we ever do make a star ship, we will be lucky if it makes it as far as the moon without needing to be hauled back in for a major repair. Their machines make us dumber than we ever have been. They try to recommend we buy products, not because we need them, but purely so they can make money on selling us shit we dont need and cant afford that is actually worse than the previous model. These self driving cars are merely surveillance tools that will be shut off at the first sign of revolution against the Corporation State.

First search result. There are several vendors.
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Build a lower Full Auto with no #, and Phuck the dumb stuff.. Hide the spare lower,, and shut up about said lower.

The point is, your bosses at the Fed create money out of electrons (devaluing our salaries and savings in the process), sell it to the government for bonds, charge interest on the bonds, charge exorbitant "costs" like five hundred million, hand out the other eighty billion to the banks which founded it to play with, get it back, and then you brag on them for finally giving that interest to the treasury.
The point is, I am not impressed by the Fed's "largesse", and I don't think anyone else is either.

Collateral like what? Packaged securities?
Highly unlikely? So what if they make other investments?
Who said "billions"? I didn't. And since when do all the banks only get a combined maximum of twenty million?
Your lips are moving, but like a lawyer, politician or propagandist, you're managing to avoid saying anything that means anything.

But of course everyone wants to take the time to track what's happening to the money the Fed, as a bondholder, collects in interest on the national debt. And the Fed clearly has the transparency to make it possible.

Well, there's nothing we'd rather do than take your word for it. I suppose bad mortgages packaged as "securities" and sold to investors never happened either?
And, of course, guns never appear in gun-free zones.

Well, there you go. They can transfer portions of eighty billion seven hundred million dollars to member banks. Member banks can buy stocks, reap capital gains, and transfer the principal back, all before the end of the quarter or the end of the year when the Fed then gives it to the Treasury.
Eighty billion, seven hundred million FRNs, give or take, is a nice chunk of capital to play with. Which was my point, a point which still stands after a page of dissembling on your part.

"He is the fastest shooter",, with a revolver.. not a semi auto.. and that was posted simply for the point.
A semi auto will fire on each trigger trip. Bump stocks do the same but use recoil toaid the process.. This make target acquisition horribly inaccurate. You are shooting with a wobbly gun.
A full auto Armalite Rifle will cycle between 600 and 700.. 650 generally.. a practiced trigger can fire perfect 3 round bursts,,
No,, I can not fire that fast,, neither can a bump stock..
But as fast as I CAN PULL A TRIGGER,, I can keep my sights on a target.. and a Bump Stock can NOT.

The Fed basement is full of gold. You were also talking about the Fed receiving interest on bonds which it--eventually--shells out to the Treasury. You know money is an asset.
You don't need to make an ass of yourself by asking me to define 'assets', Zippy. If you don't want to answer the question, run and hide. You've done it before.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/jekyll_island_conference
No doubt you'll dispute the verb "owned". Think you can dispute the verb "controlled"? Think anyone will be impressed by the difference?
As for whether Fed stock can be sold, or whether you put the word stock in quotation marks, stocks denote ownership (usually temporarily) and if anyone can play with funds on hand, it's the owners.

Since when is the "We got a badass over here" meme "gay"? It's been all over the interwebz for many moons and it's used by all sorts of folks. There are several samples in the various "bestest picture thread evarrr"-s.

The reason I have no use for monarchies is it's complete pot luck what you get. If your generation gets a Victoria, you could be in worse shape (assuming her advisors aren't lying to her about what they're doing), but if you get an Ivan the Terrible you're screwed. I prefer a system that at least holds out hope for nonviolent revolution, whether people are generally smart enough to use it or not.

You're right, I should have said the Kaiser, not Bismarck. :/ (My WWI history is rather rusty...I do remember Hitler suffered from mustard gas inhalation during that war and a bunch of other factoids) Yeah, monarchs have been somewhat fascist in certain occasions, but they always had incentive not to destroy their subjects' economy or their own respective societies as presidents and prime ministers or even legislators do. (such elected officials almost always leave office very wealthy and almost never face justice for their misdeeds) Generally speaking, the best to worst scale goes- voluntary association with government>hereditary monarchy>monarchy>classical republicanism>modern constitutionalism>democracy etc.

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